Package-binding implement



Dec. 15, 1925- 1.565.865

. v v. RAGONA PACKAGE BINDING IMPLEMENT Filed Oct. 5. 1922 7 i)INVENTOI? L ATTORNEY f Patented Dec. 15, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VINCENT RAGONA,*OE BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO CARY MANUFACTURINGCO., 01 BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

PACKAGE-BINDING- IMPLEMENT.

Application filefl October 5, 1922.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VINCENT RAcoNA, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings,and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Package BindingImplement, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a package binding im plement, wherein a bindingelement, such as a wire, is passed around a package of one form oranother and is placed under tension and locked.

The implement pertains to a rotatable head operable for placing tensionon the binding element, and it includes a plurality of gripperspositioned for engagement with the binding element in such a manner thatthe strain of such element so acts upon the gripper as to increase thebinding or gripping action of said gripper upon the wire.

The rotatable head is formed wlth a plurality of abutments eachpositioned in active relation to one of the grippers, and 111 therotatable movement of the head these abutments are presented for contactwith the binding element, as a result of which sald binding element iswound upon one or more of said abutments, dependent upon the extent ofrotation of the head, whereby the required tension is placed upon thewire.

Other functions and advantages of tl1e 1nvention will appear fromthefollowing description, taken in connection with the drawings,wherein- Figure 1 is an elevation of my rotatable head in conjunctionwith one form of package binding implement.

Figure 2 is a cross section through the head on the line 2-2 of Figure1, and

Figure 3 is a perspective View of one of the grippers.

In a practical embodiment of the invention, the rotary head, A, is shownas comprising a disk like member, a, prov ded with abutments, b, and aplurality of grippers, 0, two or more in number as desired.

The member, a, is shown as a disk with flat faces and a hub, d, thelatter being fixedly attached by suitable means to a shaft B. Theabutments, b, are in the shape of segments of a spool or drum, saidabutments beingln fixed relation to the disk, a, being made 111- tegraltherewith. Said abutments are near the periphery of the disk, andprotrude be- Serial No. 592,493.

yond one of the plane surfaces thereof, said abutments being spacedequidistantly so as to leave intervals between them for the freeinsertion of the binding wire. The abutments are shown as being providedinthe outer segmental faces thereof with a groove or channel, 6, withinwhich is adapted to be received the binding wire in the operation ofrotating the head for winding or coilin said wire upon the exteri' rsurfaces of sai abutments, whereby the abutments perform the function ofa spool or drum for coiling the wire thereon should the head be rotatedsufliciently to wind or coil the wire in the operations of taking upslack in such wire and lacing the wire under tension for drawlng saidwire into tight engagement with the package to be wired or bound.

Each gripper, c, is shown as a dog pivoted, at f, to the disk, at, ofthe rotary head for cooperation with the abutments, Z). Said gripper isformed or cast in a single piece with a nose, 9, and a tail piece, it,the gripper being pierced intermediate its ends by the provision of anaperture, 2', through which passes the screw or stud, f, by which thegripper is attached pivotally to the rotary head. Said grippers arepositioned for lateral contact with one of the faces of the disklikemember, a, the plurality of grippers be ing positioned within the circledescribed by the segmental abutments, and said grippers being shown aspivotally attached at points equi-distantly positioned on the diskmember, a. Each pivoted gripper occupies such relation to the abutmentsthat the tail, h, is free to play or move in the interval between twoadjacent abutments, whereas, the nose, g, of said gripper is closed toan inner face of one abutment, 6, near the end there of. This relationis desirable for the reasons that the tail of the gripper is in the pathof a wire adapted to be inserted into the space between two of theabutments, so that the tail of the gripper will have contact with saidwire, whereas the nose of the gripper is positioned for cooperation withthe abutment in a manner for said gripper nose and the abutment oppositethereto will have the desired physical contact with said wire for thepurposeof gripping said wire infixed relation to the head.

The wire is insertible easily by moving it laterally through the spacebetween two of the abutments, and between one abutment and the nose otthe adjacent gripper, as shown in Figure l, the tail of said gripperbeing in contact with the wire. A slight turn of the head or pull on thewire results in the gripper being moved, by the contact of its tailpiece with the wire, for the nose of the gripper to bite on the wire andthus to securely retain such wire between the nose of said gripper andthe abutment next to said gripper, as clearly shown. The rotation of thehead and pull on the wire so acts upon the gripper that it retains thewire in fixed engagement with the head, and thus an increased tension onthe wire so all ects the gripper that it is more firmly pressed intocontactwith the wire, and the wire is thus more firmly held between. thegripper nose and the abutment.

it will be noted that the wire is attached to the head by the.cooperation of one of the grippers with one of the abutments, and in mer tative n'mvement of the head the wire is adapted to be received uponone or more (it the other almtments dependent upon the extent of therotative movement given to the head in taking up slack in the wire andoi placing the required tension upon said wire, so that ultimately thewire may be Wound or coiled upon the segmental abutments, exteriorlythereto.

is shown in Figure 3, and by dotted lines lip, j, ei:tending beyond theend otthe tail piece, at one side thereof. This 11p is on that "face oithe gripper away from the face of the disk, so that the wire is adaptedto lie between the disk and the lip of the gripper, as a res t of which,displacement of the wire away om the member, a, in the initialmanipulation of the wire to connect it with the head, is precluded bysaid lip of the gripper. i

The rotary head of my invention may be use in connection with thevarious forms of in .n'ients adapted for binding packages. :i s anexample oi the implement, there is ."ll vfll in Figures 1 and 9, adrivenshaft, B, upon which the head, A, is secured by rotat ontherewith. (in the shaft is a worm ,v'e r, indicated by dotted lines atC in Fig are 9. which gear meshes with aworm, D, on a d" 'en shaft, E,mounted in a suitable titanic, l l, said driven shaft being operated bya lover, which imparts movement to a ratchet, F. as disclosed in aco-opending application tiled by 'l. H. Mcl'laul and myself jointinventors. The binding wire to be pied in the head, A, as heretoforeexplained, is adapted to have one end of said wire attached to the base,G, of a frame G, within which is positioned a suitable twistingmechanism, also disclosed in said application. said twisting mechanismbeing operated by a gear, H, for the purpose of twisting togetherparallel lengths ofsaid Wire,

igure 1, the gripper is provided with a after which the wire is severedat a point close to the twist by a cutting mechanism, 1, the etlect ofwhich is to release that part of the wire gripped to the head, A,whereupon the wire can easily be removed from the head, or said wirewill drop out of the head, being tree from strain, so as to release thegripper by relaxation of tension on the tail piece thereof.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new. anddesire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. in a device of the class described, a rotatable head provided with anabutment, and a double ended gripper both ends of which are engagablewith a wire, said gripper being rotatable with said head and positionedfor one of said gripper ends to co-operate with said abutment inretaining the wire in a non-slipping relation to the head.

2. In a device of the class described, a rotatable head and a gripperpivoted thereto for one portion or said gripper to be acted upon by awire. in a manner tor-the nose of said gripper to be forcibly pressedagainst said wire with the wire bridging the space between theends ofthe gripper.

3. In adcvicc or the class described, a r0- tatablehead provided with anabutment, and a movable. gripper carried by said head for cooperationwith said alnitment, said gripper beingin the path of a wire for contacttherewith, in a manner to shift the position of the gripper and toposition said gripper cooperation with said abutment.

l. In a device of the class described, arotatable head provided with anabutment, and a gripperpivoted to the head for the nose of said gripperto cooperate-with said abutment, the other end oi said gripper beingpositioned for a contact with a wire in a manner tor such contact-toshift the gripper whereby the wire isadapted to beheld between thegripperand' the abutment.

in a device of the class described, the combination with ararryingmember having a tired surface, and a work-engaging meniher cooperablewith said fixed surface, said vrork-engaging member-being positioned forcontact with the workat a plurality of points and being controlled atone of said points by contact with the work so as to be- ;tor the otherof said points to be :sedinto contact with the work.

at aw In a device of the class described, a roable head provided with anabutment, and a work-engaging gripper pivoted tosaid head tor movementrelatively to said abutment, said work-engaging gripper being po--sitioned for one taco of the gripper to be in the path ofthe workadapted to be inserted between the gripper and. the abutment.

7. In a device of the class described, a rotatable headp ov ded with aplurality of almtinents, and gripper pivoted to said in the intervalseparating said abutments.

8. In a device of the class described, a r0- tatable head provided witha plurality of abutnients, and a plurality of grippers, each pivoted tosaid head for one end of the grip per to cooperate with one abutment andp0- sitioned for the other end of said gripper to play in the intervalseparating two adjacent abutments.

9. In a device ofthe class described, a rotatable head provided with aplurality of abutinents presenting the segments of a spool, saidabutments being relatively spaced, and a plurality of grippers eachpivoted to the head for cooperation With one of said abutments.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have hereuntosigned my name at the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn. this 4thday of October, 1922.

VINCENT RAGONA.

